Spaventapasseri Quotes & Sayings

I had an idea of him,' Ursula said, 'but the idea wasn't him. Perhaps I wanted to fall in love. — Kate Atkinson

If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor.
I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown like chaff. All that was left was the taste of salt. — Sarah Micklem

Do you ever think of me when you look up at the moon and the stars? When you look into the horizon as the sun sets? We're looking at the same sun, and the stars may burn brighter where you are, but I can't see them, and they're still there. I spend nights trying to see the stars that you see, but I end up seeing you in the stars instead. — Karen Quan

You're scary when you're in a good mood, you know that ? — J.K. Rowling

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay — Charles Dickens

A wonderful book ... Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving. — Esther Freud

The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man. — G.H. Hardy

I don't care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I'd make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you — Mary E. Pearson

Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages. Viewed in the Darwinian light, all humanly possible grammars compete to match the language spoken in the child's environment. And fitness, because we have competition, can be measured by the compatibility of a grammar with what a child hears in a particular linguistic environment. This theory of language takes both nature and nurture into account: nature proposes, and nurture disposes. — Charles Yang

Mom was stubborn, and eloquent. — Joyce Carol Oates

The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs. — Hans-Peter Lindstrom

See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out. — Arundhati Roy